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Congress votes to ban federally funded tissue research
The 93rd Congress implements a ban on almost all federally funded fetal tissue research until the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research devises guidelines for it. (Source: www.scienceprogress.org) -
Federal funding for embryo research approved
Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel reopens the question and votes 18-3 to approve the federal funding of embryo research. Despite this level of support for the research, the Department of Health and Human Services accepts the testimony of three conservative dissenters who argue that embryo research would lead to an increase in abortions and in response extends the moratorium on this research. -
Embryonic Stem Cells Isolated
History of embryo and stem cell researchEmbryonic stem cells are first isolated in mice by two groups — Gail Martin at the University of California, San Francisco, and Martin Evans, then with the University of Cambridge
